Blue HighwaysBy William Least Heat-MoonPublished in 1983"Beware...

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Blue Highways

By William Least Heat-Moon

Published in 1983

"Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. Take the idea of February 17, a day of canceled expectations, the day I learned my job teaching English was finished because of declining enrollment at the college, the day I called my wife from whom I'd been separated for nine months to give her the news, the day she let slip about her "friend"--Rick or Dick or Chick. Something like that."

Submitted by Marilyn Kayton, Naperville

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